December 3, 2024 • 38 mins
Today, Doug Pike interviews Dr. Rafael Samper-Ternent about how culture plays a role in geriatric care.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Remember when it was impossible to misplace the TV remote
because you were the TV remote. Remember when music sounded
like this? Remember when social media was truly social?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hey, John, how's it going today?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
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plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
All right, welcome back to another live edition of fifty plus.
On this first Tuesday in December. I took a pretty
good stretch of time off and because Monday is usual
off day and bonus day, on which Will Melbourne had
to scramble to put something together because he and I
were not on the same page.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Sorry about that, Will.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Man, I'm sorry. He's not gonna cut it. What are
you gonna do? I don't know. I think I got
to demand some you'll think of something. I'm sure you will. Well,
thank you for covering us yesterday. Anyway, God, it's already December.
I mean, Christmas coming at us now like a freight train.
I took this past week off and made the most
of every day.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
I gotta tell you.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
I played golf, I want to say, four times this
past week. And I don't even know how I pulled
that off, especially with what's going on around the house.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
But I did, and it was It was not bad.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
And you've got pretty chili last week, and I enjoyed
that weather. Got some not so nice weather on the horizon.
We all have seen that just hammered on us during
the FOURKA or the broadcast lately on TV. But truth is,
we could use some rain right now. And anyway, I
hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I hope we
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all make it to the new year and that we
put this country back onto a better track in January.
Lots to talk about today, so let's get to it
from the weather desk. No green screen required in radio
and thanks to Texas Indoor Air Quality Specialists. Because cleaner
air is healthier air, go to Texas IAQ dot net
to find out more about breathing cleaner, healthier air in
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your home. The forecast does show pretty much a great
chance of rain tomorrow that's going to be probably the worst,
potentially even an inch or two of rain in some areas,
and those rain chances stick with us for a week
or so, which bothers me a little bit because if
they're one hundred percent correct, that could be problematic for
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our golf tournament, our eleventh annual golf tournament for Saint
Jude on Monday up at Golf Club of Houston. But
this far out, full seven days out, I'm not really
overly worried about that just yet, And it looks like
this stuff is going to be slowly breaking up after tomorrow.
We'll still get showers, but they will be more scattered
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and hopefully lighter, and nothing we can't handle up there.
While we're trying to raise a lot of money for
those very sick children moving into the markets. And thanks
there go to Houston Gold Exchange. As always, it doesn't
look this morning like I missed much in business while
I was out. A couple of ugly red numbers among
the four big ones, but nothing scary. Oil just jumped
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about an hour ago above seventy dollars again, and that
was up a couple of bucks since early this morning.
It was still sixty eight something early this morning, Gold
still well north of twenty six hundred dollars an out,
So all in all, we're on a pretty steady path.
I think off into local, state, national, and international news,
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and I know I'm late to the party on this one,
but I wasn't the least surprised, not a bit, that
President Biden pardoned his son, despite telling us right up
to the election that he wasn't going to do that.
His mouthpiece, corne Jean Pierre, kept saying the same thing.
I saw a collage, if you will, of of video
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clips in which one person after another, either on television
or at the White House briefings, was saying that they'd
gone over that enough time to let everybody know that
President Biden was not going to pardon his son because
he wanted to show that he really had a lot
of respect for the judicial system and for the law.
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And lo and behold, it didn't go that way.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Biden. Here's what happened. His crack smoking, money grabbing.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Some was looking at decades behind bars by the time
he trusted through everything that was on his legal plate,
allegedly in many cases. But Biden couldn't pardon him before
the election, because that would have exposed kind of who
these folks really are and it would have cost Kamala
Harris even more votes. Biden was counting on Harris to
win because then she could have pardoned Hunter and he
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could have said, well, I didn't get in the way.
This was something that was done independently by her. But
that didn't work out either. So Biden signed the paper
I think a couple of days ago, and pardon Hunting
Hunter for anything and everything he's done or may have
done in the past ten years. I think it's about
how it was worded. He might want to write out
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a few more pardons for more people before he checks
out of Hotel White House. How am I doing? Oh,
I've got a little time here.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
This is good.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
From down Mexico Way on the Texas border, which is
the goal line for several caravans of people scurrying to
get there and cross into the United States before President
Trump takes office. Agents are turning up more and more
of what they call special interest aliens aka terror including
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just this past week, young men from Iran and Turkey.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
The worst of the worst, are are.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Working hard to get into this country before the gate
gets shut in January, and increasingly more of them are
being charged with sex crimes involving children. That's dozens of
men accused of just a laundry list of different sex
crimes against kids, and none of those men would be
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here but for this administration's open border policy, not any
of them should be here.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Worth noting.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
I saw that ten percent of inmates in the Harris
County Jail are illegal immigrants eleven hundred and sevy eleven hundred,
sevy seventy one thy one hundred and seventy under ice detainers,
and about fifteen percent of them once again accused of
sexual assaults, mostly on children. From the retail discount megastor
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desk that Costco sure about this? Will Costco is gonna
ditch the book section and the majority of its stores
beginning in January. Does that bother you of its book section?
The book section goes out except for the holidays and
then random times. I guess based on the releases of
hot selling titles and offerers. Are you gonna miss the
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book section in Costco?
Speaker 4 (07:22):
I didn't even know Costco had a book section. I
didn't either, But I also don't even have a Costco card.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
I don't either.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
It doesn't really pertain to me, really, does it. I
just if you want cheap books, you can get them online,
and you I don't sure there's somewhere you can get
all the books you want. Apparently it just wasn't making
enough money. And that's that makes sense now during the
gift giving season, Yes, it makes sense to have popular
books in stock. You could probably put them on one
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little shelf out front and just restock as needed. But
to do away with the whole department I think gives
them room to put out more ten gallon jugs, mayn
ais and stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
All Right, we got to take a little break here.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
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Speaker 2 (08:37):
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Speaker 2 (09:21):
What's life without a net?
Speaker 3 (09:23):
I suggest you go to bed, leave it off.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Just wait until this show's over. Sleepy.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues. I had
to go a whole.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Week without that music will and it just tore me up.
You believe that, I do believe it.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
That's why I played that one for me. Thank you. Yeah,
now I feel like I'm right back at home. Welcome
back to fifty plus. Thanks as always for sharing the
middle of your day with us. We'll talk in this
segment about how how culture plays a larger role in
geriatric care than some of us might realize. And to
make that statement make sense, I'm going to enlist doctor
Rafael Some, perternent Associate Professor at ut Health School of
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Public Health and leader of Research and Innovation at the
core of the Institute on Aging man.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
This is this.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Is a good opportunity to learn a lot of stuff
for all of us. Welcome to fifty plus.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
Doc, Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Yes see me here again. I greatly appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
So in all my years, and I'm no longer young,
I've I've recognized cultural differences. I live in Sugarland, for
Heaven's sakes, and there's a little bit of everything out
there and everybody, but I've never really thought about how
different cultures might impact the medical treatment, treatment and all
of that for older adults.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Where do you do we even start this discussion?
Speaker 5 (10:51):
Yeah, well, Texas is a very diverse state, and so
it's it's really important to consider it that and we're
trying to change how we train a lot of physicians
and healthcare providers because the more diverse we become the
more new oneces we need to keep in mind when
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providing care. So my research focuses a lot on Hispanic
older adults, and in the Hispanic culture, family is really important.
So when you see a Hispanic patient, you usually come
with a son, a daughter, or another family member, and
there they play a really active role in the care
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that they provide to older adults. It's a cultural expectation
for Hispanics to care for older adults or other family
members that need help, and so they want to be
involved in the care. And so if you're not prepared
for that and suddenly there's a patient with five family
members and know how to deal with that, that could
be quite a challenge.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Yeah, I was going to say, when you said they
might show up with a son or a daughter, there
might be like you said, four or five people with
them who all are genuinely interested in what's going on.
Among all the physicians and providers in the greater Houston area,
what grade would you give them on understanding the subtle
and not so subtle differences in elder care from culture
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to culture.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
So I think it's not unique to the Houston area.
I think having the Texas Medical Center puts us at
an advantage because we have large institutions that are committed
to providing equitable care, but they're still challenges. Not all
clinicians have been trained to be culturally humble, meaning acknowledging
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the different cultures, perceive different things differently and need a
slightly different approach. But I think we're slowly improving, and
I think people are getting more and more aware that
we need to recognize our differences and try to start
clinical encounters knowing that the person on the other side,
the patient and the family might come from a different
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background and might require a slightly different approach related to
their healthcare.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Talk about just access generally for these geriatric patients based
on culture to culture.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
How does that access differ.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
Yeah, so language is usually the main thing that we
think about. So a lot of older Hispanics preferred to
speak in Spanish as their main language, and sometimes their
families translate, which is not the ideal way of doing it,
but a lot of times it's the only thing that.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Is available.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
Medicare requires that all clinics are all hospitals providing care
to older adults have translation service, but that comes with challenges,
so sometimes there's no WI FI, so you can't connect
to the service that does the translation. Sometimes you only
have one translator available for the whole hospital, so it
becomes challenging. Families are usually asked to take that burden
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and translate fur their loved ones, but it's the only
way to communicate. Well, even though that's not ideal, when
clinicians come with some humility and understand that that could
be a potential challenge that can significantly improve the care
and the encounter.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Yeah, and in this state, at least anywhere in this state,
and especially where we are, because our medical facilities are
so advanced and we're the place to go for it,
you probably need how many different translators do you need
to adequately cover this population of ours?
Speaker 5 (14:38):
Well, yeah, so it's a huge number. I don't know
exactly what the number is. Most insitutions have two or three.
So they rely on services where you can call a
number and you have translators in different languages available to
help with that. But again there are some challenges to that.
So you need the technology, a tablet or a phone
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where you can have a because telephone translation gets hard,
so you try to use a video translation. But then
there are some technological challenges that sometimes prevent this from
going smoothly and could make the encounter even harder.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
That's a very brief sidebar, and then we'll get right back.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
I saw something online the other day that is like
an earpiece you would put on your ear and it's
AI equipped where I could speak to you in English,
and if you were a Spanish speaker, it would automatically
translate that to your ear piece in Spanish, and then
you could speak back to me in Spanish and it
would in my earpiece it would translate back to English.
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So hopefully that's coming up coming fast. I hope you've
seen that.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
Yeah, and Google has made huge advents as well, and
other big companies are making huge events. However, we need
to be careful because AI can hallucinate all times and interpret
things that are not accurate, and it happens with trained
translators as well as a clinician. I've had experiences what
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I've had to stop the translator and say that's not
at all what I said. Oh wow, and so let
me take over and I'll translate into Spanish now. But
I think we're making a lot of progress and part
of the innovations that we're testing in the Institute on
Aging and seeing how we can use technology to actually
facilitate a lot of this encounters and try to remove
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some of the barriers. But we have to be very
careful because the AI that you use is only as
good as how well it has been trained.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Boy, isn't at the truth in and in a medical setting,
that's very important to get it exactly right. Doctor Raphael
Sampraturnett on fifty plus. Family dynamics from culture to culture
very very different. You mentioned how attentive Hispanic cultures are
to their seniors. What other which cultures tend to do
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best as it pertains to their seniors who need medical
care and which are kind of blase about it.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
Yeah, so Hispanics have there's something called the Hispanic paradox
that has been described broadly where despite not having as
many resources, they have a mortality advantage. So older Hispanics
tend to die at lower rates than Blacks and whites,
and that advantage has been attributed to different things. One
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of them is living in neighborhoods that are heavily Hispanic
and having big social support and social networks to support
older adults. The black community because of its heavy faith
based culture. They tend to do well, and they see
caregiving not as a burden but as a responsibility and
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the right thing to do. Whites tend to fare a
little poor in terms of outcomes and provision of care
to older adults. So there's something in the Hispanic culture
where family is a huge value that seems to be
protective for older Hispanics.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
They're setting the benchmarkin no question about that. Doctor Raphael
Semper Tournent. I greatly appreciate your time. I've got three
or four more questions here, but I don't have time
for him. Now we'll have to do this again.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
Yep, sounds good. Thank you very much for having me.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
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Aged what a perfection this is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
All right, welcome back to fifty plus.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Thank you for listening on this pretty dog on nice Tuesday,
which probably is going to be followed by tomorrow morning
with a very wet Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Where do I want to go here? Let's go to
something lighter, will shall we?
Speaker 3 (20:37):
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come up with any kind of a little feature or
bit that you're going to do while I was gone,
while you had all that time to work on it? Yes?
What do you got? All right? Are you ready? I am?
And runs back? And how do you feel about it? Oh?
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I didn't know it was a Q and a thing
E fool me once? I don't know. Uh, in what
iteration are they coming back? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
It's it's the I guess, the the memorial of their bankruptcy.
And they've they've launched a new website. Okay, but that's it.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Now.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
There's a there's a company that has bought the Enron trademark,
and they also do this very popular site called Birds
Aren't Real, which is uh, you know, really cell merch. Yeah,
and they've got good merch and you know, little videos
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and whatnot. But they've bought the Enron trademark, so there
might be a chance. This is well, I think that's
a totally different thing. Yeah, but I think that they
might also start using uh, you know, maybe start selling
Enron merch.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
And they're starting with birds Aren't Real. They've been doing
birds Aren't Real for a long time. Where do you
come up with a name like that?
Speaker 4 (22:05):
Well, it's to say that apparently birds aren't real and
that their government drones sent to spy on us.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
I'm fading fast over here, will let's move forward, honk shoe?
They say, guess what today? Today is national?
Speaker 2 (22:20):
What day?
Speaker 3 (22:21):
I don't know about Hong Shoe. Way, Well, I don't know, So.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Today is national?
Speaker 3 (22:26):
What day? Well it's Giving Tuesday? Well no, no, this
is different. This is the weird obscure one that Giving Tuesday.
I've got something on that as well. By the way,
I will I tell you. It's been around since twenty twelve. Okay,
so good, you brought it up. I'm I'm gonna give
you what I know about it. And in a poll,
a whopping thirty six percent of us said they've even
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heard of it. It's only been around twelve years, and
only one third of the country has heard of it,
and fifteen percent have participated. I guess in the last
four years, you can kind of understand that not a
whole lot of people willing to dig deep and throw
money around. Fifty six percent of Americans, by the way,
think they are more generous than their friends. Are you
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more generous than your friends? Am I more generous than
my friends?
Speaker 4 (23:12):
I don't know. I don't think so. I have some
pretty generous friends.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
I do too. Now is it are they generous because
they have a lot more than you? Or do you
do you feel like they give more than you because
they have more than you, or just what? I don't know.
I think that they're just they're just naturally generous people. Well,
I feel like I'm a pretty generous person. I really do.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Yeah, I try.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
I do.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
I do what I can with what I have.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
I give as much as I can for you, Saint Jude,
for example, I'll be one of the first people to
call and pledge that same monthly pledge that I did
last year. And I don't need another sweatshirt. So if
you want a sweatshirt, maybe I can give mind to you.
What size do you wear? Will I'm an extra large
you want to say, Jude sweatshirt, I'll take a Saint Jude.
So okay, let me see if I can remember to
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ask for an extra large and if I do, it'll
be yours because I have one at home that already
fits me. And yeah, anyway, so back to what today is,
Will before we run out of time in this segment,
you want to take it's a food, and I'll give
you a hint. It's probably a couple of days later
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then it should have been, because by now it's probably
been thrown out. Oh, happy Leftover's Day. Well that's too
that's too generic. You gotta it's gotta be a Tuesday. No,
come on, what's on most not all? It wasn't on
our Thanksgiving table, as a matter of fact, but what's
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on many Thanksgiving tables. And on top of it is
a little bed of crunchy onions, those dried up crispy onions,
green bean casserole, bingo. If you had a if you
had a symbol clash, you could have played it right then,
about two days after we tossed all that stuff in
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the trash. I don't know why it would be today.
That makes no sense. Will, of course, a lot in
the world doesn't make sense these days. Huh, all right,
I'll give you a chance to pick. We got a
couple of minutes left. Wait your turn now? Who knew
that was about thanksg Giving Tuesday? Weight your turn? Strumming
along or learned to count? And they're all good strumming along.
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I like this one. It's very interesting. More than three
thousand fake Gibson electric guitars shipped from Asia were seized
by Asians at the La Airport at en La Airport.
I don't know which one three thousand fake Gibson's coming
in and.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
That's some I just.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Can't imagine where they might be coming from. Uh, fake
Gibson's that's the problem. You know what else comes in
a lot? Will that one of the one of them
most counterfeited industries in the country. Take a guess, and
it's a sport. Oh, let's see. You want to hint? Yeah,
it's a game played by a lot a lot of
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wealthy people.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
Okay, hmm poker, bake chip, Yeah, yeah, that's it.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Will you know it's not a gambling game, it's a sport. Okay,
tag No, you're just not even trying. No, no, no, no, no, it's.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Golf, will it's golf. Seriously, there are there.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Are major problems with the intellectual property of things that
are being made for American companies in China, in the
golf industry that are making they wear their way here
in identical packaging, identical everything, golf golf shoe. I don't
know about shoes, but I know about golf balls. I
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know specifically of an incident many years ago, I mean
many years ago where counterfeit titleist golf balls we're being
shipped into this country and resold, and so yeah, any
way to make a buck. I guess you know a
lot of golf clubs. I think they've cleaned up a
lot of that, but I suspect that it's still going on.
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And three thousand fake Gibson electric guitars just kind of
tells you that nothing's changed. I suppose we want one more. No,
we don't have time for one more doing No, Okay,
let's move on then. Of late health attention, attention gentlemen,
and by gentlemen mostly I mean guys over about fifty
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to fifty five. That puts you at one in four
risk for an enlarged non cancerous prostate. I just have
my blood work done. My PSA is fine, that's the
good news. But I may have some of this non
cancerous stuff going on, these symptoms that gets you up
out of bed to go pee two or three times
a night, that cause other issues that are just none
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of this nothing related to this is fun. And late
Health can help alleviate that problem by a process called
prostate artery embolization, wherein they go find exactly that they're
a vascular clinic. Okay, so what they're going to do
is identify the artery that is feeding oxygenated blood to
that prostate, and then they go in there just plug
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it up.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
They put a cork.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Well it's not a quark and it's not that big anyway,
but they block that artery so that no more blood
goes to the prostate. With no more blood going there,
it can't get worse. It only just starts to shrink
up and die, and along with it go the symptoms
of that pesky prostate. They also do fibroid treatments for women.
They do ugly veins for anybody who's got them. There
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are incidents of head pain that can be alleviated with
vascular proceed and they do all of them right there
in the clinic. Usually in a couple of hours, you're
gonna need somebody to drive you home. But then you
do get to go home to recover. You don't spend
a minute in a hospital. It's all done right there
in the clinics. They cover. Most of what they do
is covered by Medicare and Medicaid. Now they also do
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regenerative medicine, which I don't think is yet covered. But boy,
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Well, they sure don't make them like they used to.
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That's why every few months we wash them, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh cod o wax.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 6 (30:10):
Right, welcome back, fifty plus on It's Tuesday Giving Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Is that what it's called?
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Well, that's what it says on the clock over there,
What do you give?
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Yeah, it is okay. Giving Tuesday, International Day of Persons
with Disabilities. That's the longest one of those I've ever seen.
I think I think the International Day of Persons with
Disabilities might be more important than Giving Tuesday. It's kind
of a toss up, isn't it. Which do you think.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Is more important?
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Uh? Probably International? Yeah, I agree, I really do, I
really do. There's some recognition. Anybody who has a disability,
first of all, shouldn't be recognized for their disability first,
but for their ability to overcome that disability and however
they can and to whatever degree. There is no there's
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no guideline that says you have.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
To do this if you have that.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
That's just you do what you can with what you have.
And I admire people who who don't let anything get
in their way. I really do. I do. Oh, mercy,
let's go back. Come from a good news desk, speaking
of there's always good news if you go looking for it.
It has been fifty years since doctors have added a
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tool in their box of options for COPD and asthma,
and there is a new one. There's a new one,
an injection that's looking to be a true game changer
in those two conditions being studied in Great Britain, appears
to be four or five times more effective than steroid tablets.
(31:53):
There's still more time needed to get this one approved
across the board, but human trials thus far have gone
quite well, and so that's certainly good news. Back to
all this, I found this interesting too, and I had it.
I wrote it yesterday, actually I did or Sunday evening,
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Sunday afternoon, when I was in here doing some prep
work from the in the beginning desk comes word that
Bibles are selling like hotcakes in our country right now,
and as a Christian, I'm happy to hear that people,
and especially young people from what I read, young people
who may have been raised outside the church, or of
a different faith than mine, or maybe we're coached away
from religion altogether. They're looking again for something in which
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they can believe deeply, and many of them are turning
to the Bible. And I'd imagine that other faiths also
are attracting renewed attention just now as well. These are
kind of weird times, and I think there's comfort in
a deep belief in something that's maybe at a little
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more than you really do. I think that's good. And
there actually are several hundred recognized religions in this country,
but more than two thirds of Americans still practice some
form of Christianity. About a quarter say they don't practice
any religion at all. And I would think it might
be some of them who are saying, you know what,
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maybe I should take a look, and that's more power
to them. From the picking up the tab desk comes
news that Denver, Colorado, one of so many of these
sanctuary cities in our country at present, Denver has shelled
out three hundred and fifty six million dollars so far
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to take care of migrants who've landed in that mile
high city of theirs. That's about seventy nine hundred per
migrant so far, which accounts for roughly eight percent of
that city's twenty twenty five budget four point four billion
dollar budget. And to pay those bills, Denver has stopped
planning spring flower beds. Now, we don't leave flowers. We
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got to take care of these people. They've reduced services
at their own recreation centers. We don't need rec centers.
We need to take care of these people who aren't
even supposed to be here, and they have tapped into
the city's contingency fund, and nothing on that list is
anything but bad for Denver. In just the past two years,
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forty five thousand migrants in Denver, including more than sixteen
thousand children, newly enrolled in city schools, at a cost
of two hundred and twenty eight million bucks a year.
Hospital system teetering on collapse behind delivering forty nine million
dollars in uncompensated care to migrants. At the same time,
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a Denver migrant advocate says that six months of free
rent and free food and free medical care is an
offensive slap in the face. You ever heard the expression
give them an inch and they'll take a mile. That's
I'm afraid what far too many of these migrants are doing.
And they have people who are championing but oh no,
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we need more than that. We need more than Americans get.
I'll never understand why we are not taking care of
ours first, of people who were born and raised here,
of people who came here and went through the proper
channels to gain citizenship. I don't understand how that fell
apart in this country of ours. All right, well, let's
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soften it up going out. That's enough of that. Boy,
I had more to believe me, got plastic surgery news,
I've got no. I'll hold those for tomorrow, all right,
Will We're back to you and you ready?
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Yeah? Wait? Your turn?
Speaker 3 (35:43):
Learn to count? Or a little goes a long way? Hmm,
a little goes a long way.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
A poll asked people, by the.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
Way, will I think you're doing a great job? A
poll asked people what it would take for them to
feel more appreciated at work, and forty eight percent said
a personal thank you from their boss would do that.
You know, I'm actually gonna just share this with Eddie,
and he and I, he and are close enough that
I can do that. He won't think I'm kissing up
to him or anything, but I'm just gonna share that
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with him because he might be able to make a
lot of people feel good around here. He already does.
I've worked for a lot of different people in my life.
I've had a couple of small businesses very early when
I was very young. And this guy, he's as good
as they get, I gotta tell you. The bottom line
was forty eight percent said that thank you was enough.
Thirteen percent wanted to win an internal award like Employee
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of the Month. I kind of disagree with that. What
do you think will which would you rather get? A
personal thank you from me and from Brian and from
Callum or a little trophy? None of them?
Speaker 1 (37:00):
What you want?
Speaker 3 (37:00):
Oh? I want you want? Yeah? Never mind? I want
cash in my hand and pocket was burning a hole
lining my suit jacket. How about that, Well, you might
have to wait a while. You know how long Americans
spend waiting in line? This drove me crazy when I
read it. How many hours do Americans spend total? Americans
(37:23):
spend waiting in line every year? How many hours? Yeah?
I think your time? Will? You got to burn? About
thirty seconds? Okay, thirty second? It was the last time
you waited along? I'll tell you when.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
The last time I waited a long time in line
was last night? I was going.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
I went to pick up a baked potato with everything
on the side and a kid's mild sausage plate at
a barbecue place out close to where I live, and
I waited in there. Well, I called them. They said,
how long before you can get here? I said five minutes.
I'll be there.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
Oh, it'll be ready.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
And when I got there, seventeen minutes will so? So,
how long do you think total for Americans spent standing
in line? Three hours? The old total of every American, No,
thirty seven billion hours. We'll be back tomorrow
Remember when it was impossible to misplace the TV remote
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All right, welcome back to another live edition of fifty plus.
On this first Tuesday in December. I took a pretty
good stretch of time off and because Monday is usual
off day and bonus day, on which Will Melbourne had
to scramble to put something together because he and I
were not on the same page.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Sorry about that, Will.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Man, I'm sorry. He's not gonna cut it. What are
you gonna do? I don't know. I think I got
to demand some you'll think of something. I'm sure you will. Well,
thank you for covering us yesterday. Anyway, God, it's already December.
I mean, Christmas coming at us now like a freight train.
I took this past week off and made the most
of every day.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
I gotta tell you.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
I played golf, I want to say, four times this
past week. And I don't even know how I pulled
that off, especially with what's going on around the house.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
But I did, and it was It was not bad.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
And you've got pretty chili last week, and I enjoyed
that weather. Got some not so nice weather on the horizon.
We all have seen that just hammered on us during
the FOURKA or the broadcast lately on TV. But truth is,
we could use some rain right now. And anyway, I
hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I hope we
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all make it to the new year and that we
put this country back onto a better track in January.
Lots to talk about today, so let's get to it
from the weather desk. No green screen required in radio
and thanks to Texas Indoor Air Quality Specialists. Because cleaner
air is healthier air, go to Texas IAQ dot net
to find out more about breathing cleaner, healthier air in
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your home. The forecast does show pretty much a great
chance of rain tomorrow that's going to be probably the worst,
potentially even an inch or two of rain in some areas,
and those rain chances stick with us for a week
or so, which bothers me a little bit because if
they're one hundred percent correct, that could be problematic for
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our golf tournament, our eleventh annual golf tournament for Saint
Jude on Monday up at Golf Club of Houston. But
this far out, full seven days out, I'm not really
overly worried about that just yet, And it looks like
this stuff is going to be slowly breaking up after tomorrow.
We'll still get showers, but they will be more scattered
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and hopefully lighter, and nothing we can't handle up there.
While we're trying to raise a lot of money for
those very sick children moving into the markets. And thanks
there go to Houston Gold Exchange. As always, it doesn't
look this morning like I missed much in business while
I was out. A couple of ugly red numbers among
the four big ones, but nothing scary. Oil just jumped
(03:35):
about an hour ago above seventy dollars again, and that
was up a couple of bucks since early this morning.
It was still sixty eight something early this morning, Gold
still well north of twenty six hundred dollars an out,
So all in all, we're on a pretty steady path.
I think off into local, state, national, and international news,
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and I know I'm late to the party on this one,
but I wasn't the least surprised, not a bit, that
President Biden pardoned his son, despite telling us right up
to the election that he wasn't going to do that.
His mouthpiece, corne Jean Pierre, kept saying the same thing.
I saw a collage, if you will, of of video
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clips in which one person after another, either on television
or at the White House briefings, was saying that they'd
gone over that enough time to let everybody know that
President Biden was not going to pardon his son because
he wanted to show that he really had a lot
of respect for the judicial system and for the law.
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And lo and behold, it didn't go that way.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Biden. Here's what happened. His crack smoking, money grabbing.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Some was looking at decades behind bars by the time
he trusted through everything that was on his legal plate,
allegedly in many cases. But Biden couldn't pardon him before
the election, because that would have exposed kind of who
these folks really are and it would have cost Kamala
Harris even more votes. Biden was counting on Harris to
win because then she could have pardoned Hunter and he
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could have said, well, I didn't get in the way.
This was something that was done independently by her. But
that didn't work out either. So Biden signed the paper
I think a couple of days ago, and pardon Hunting
Hunter for anything and everything he's done or may have
done in the past ten years. I think it's about
how it was worded. He might want to write out
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a few more pardons for more people before he checks
out of Hotel White House. How am I doing? Oh,
I've got a little time here.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
This is good.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
From down Mexico Way on the Texas border, which is
the goal line for several caravans of people scurrying to
get there and cross into the United States before President
Trump takes office. Agents are turning up more and more
of what they call special interest aliens aka terror including
(06:02):
just this past week, young men from Iran and Turkey.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
The worst of the worst, are are.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Working hard to get into this country before the gate
gets shut in January, and increasingly more of them are
being charged with sex crimes involving children. That's dozens of
men accused of just a laundry list of different sex
crimes against kids, and none of those men would be
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here but for this administration's open border policy, not any
of them should be here.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Worth noting.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
I saw that ten percent of inmates in the Harris
County Jail are illegal immigrants eleven hundred and sevy eleven hundred,
sevy seventy one thy one hundred and seventy under ice detainers,
and about fifteen percent of them once again accused of
sexual assaults, mostly on children. From the retail discount megastor
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desk that Costco sure about this? Will Costco is gonna
ditch the book section and the majority of its stores
beginning in January. Does that bother you of its book section?
The book section goes out except for the holidays and
then random times. I guess based on the releases of
hot selling titles and offerers. Are you gonna miss the
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book section in Costco?
Speaker 4 (07:22):
I didn't even know Costco had a book section. I
didn't either, But I also don't even have a Costco card.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
I don't either.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
It doesn't really pertain to me, really, does it. I
just if you want cheap books, you can get them online,
and you I don't sure there's somewhere you can get
all the books you want. Apparently it just wasn't making
enough money. And that's that makes sense now during the
gift giving season, Yes, it makes sense to have popular
books in stock. You could probably put them on one
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little shelf out front and just restock as needed. But
to do away with the whole department I think gives
them room to put out more ten gallon jugs, mayn
ais and stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
All Right, we got to take a little break here.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
On the way out, I'll tell you about ut Health
Institute on Aging, an amazing collaborative providers from every medical discipline,
mostly med center people, but also some that work in
who work I'll say that with grammatical correctness, some who
work in outlying areas all around town Paarland, Kingwood, the Woodlands,
(08:24):
Katie down in Sugarland where I am, all the way
down into Pearland. There are all these areas have hospitals
now and big clinics, and a lot of those providers
come out of the med Center at least.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
A couple of days a week to work out there.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
So the seniors who most desperately need attentive specific care,
because we are very different from juniors, whatever they start at,
these providers are there for us. Every medical discipline, somebody
from the Institute on Aging is there to help us
when we need it. Go to the website, take a
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look around to try. Tremendous number of resources there, none
of which are going to cost you a dime, and
you get access to all of those providers. Just check
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and Medicaid and so they're there to help you when
you need them. Uth dot edu, slash aging, uth dot
edu slash aging.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
What's life without a net?
Speaker 3 (09:23):
I suggest you go to bed, leave it off.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Just wait until this show's over. Sleepy.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues. I had
to go a whole.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Week without that music will and it just tore me up.
You believe that, I do believe it.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
That's why I played that one for me. Thank you. Yeah,
now I feel like I'm right back at home. Welcome
back to fifty plus. Thanks as always for sharing the
middle of your day with us. We'll talk in this
segment about how how culture plays a larger role in
geriatric care than some of us might realize. And to
make that statement make sense, I'm going to enlist doctor
Rafael Some, perternent Associate Professor at ut Health School of
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Public Health and leader of Research and Innovation at the
core of the Institute on Aging man.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
This is this.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Is a good opportunity to learn a lot of stuff
for all of us. Welcome to fifty plus.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
Doc, Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Yes see me here again. I greatly appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
So in all my years, and I'm no longer young,
I've I've recognized cultural differences. I live in Sugarland, for
Heaven's sakes, and there's a little bit of everything out
there and everybody, but I've never really thought about how
different cultures might impact the medical treatment, treatment and all
of that for older adults.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Where do you do we even start this discussion?
Speaker 5 (10:51):
Yeah, well, Texas is a very diverse state, and so
it's it's really important to consider it that and we're
trying to change how we train a lot of physicians
and healthcare providers because the more diverse we become the
more new oneces we need to keep in mind when
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providing care. So my research focuses a lot on Hispanic
older adults, and in the Hispanic culture, family is really important.
So when you see a Hispanic patient, you usually come
with a son, a daughter, or another family member, and
there they play a really active role in the care
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that they provide to older adults. It's a cultural expectation
for Hispanics to care for older adults or other family
members that need help, and so they want to be
involved in the care. And so if you're not prepared
for that and suddenly there's a patient with five family
members and know how to deal with that, that could
be quite a challenge.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Yeah, I was going to say, when you said they
might show up with a son or a daughter, there
might be like you said, four or five people with
them who all are genuinely interested in what's going on.
Among all the physicians and providers in the greater Houston area,
what grade would you give them on understanding the subtle
and not so subtle differences in elder care from culture
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to culture.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
So I think it's not unique to the Houston area.
I think having the Texas Medical Center puts us at
an advantage because we have large institutions that are committed
to providing equitable care, but they're still challenges. Not all
clinicians have been trained to be culturally humble, meaning acknowledging
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the different cultures, perceive different things differently and need a
slightly different approach. But I think we're slowly improving, and
I think people are getting more and more aware that
we need to recognize our differences and try to start
clinical encounters knowing that the person on the other side,
the patient and the family might come from a different
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background and might require a slightly different approach related to
their healthcare.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Talk about just access generally for these geriatric patients based
on culture to culture.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
How does that access differ.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
Yeah, so language is usually the main thing that we
think about. So a lot of older Hispanics preferred to
speak in Spanish as their main language, and sometimes their
families translate, which is not the ideal way of doing it,
but a lot of times it's the only thing that.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Is available.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
Medicare requires that all clinics are all hospitals providing care
to older adults have translation service, but that comes with challenges,
so sometimes there's no WI FI, so you can't connect
to the service that does the translation. Sometimes you only
have one translator available for the whole hospital, so it
becomes challenging. Families are usually asked to take that burden
(14:03):
and translate fur their loved ones, but it's the only
way to communicate. Well, even though that's not ideal, when
clinicians come with some humility and understand that that could
be a potential challenge that can significantly improve the care
and the encounter.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Yeah, and in this state, at least anywhere in this state,
and especially where we are, because our medical facilities are
so advanced and we're the place to go for it,
you probably need how many different translators do you need
to adequately cover this population of ours?
Speaker 5 (14:38):
Well, yeah, so it's a huge number. I don't know
exactly what the number is. Most insitutions have two or three.
So they rely on services where you can call a
number and you have translators in different languages available to
help with that. But again there are some challenges to that.
So you need the technology, a tablet or a phone
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where you can have a because telephone translation gets hard,
so you try to use a video translation. But then
there are some technological challenges that sometimes prevent this from
going smoothly and could make the encounter even harder.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
That's a very brief sidebar, and then we'll get right back.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
I saw something online the other day that is like
an earpiece you would put on your ear and it's
AI equipped where I could speak to you in English,
and if you were a Spanish speaker, it would automatically
translate that to your ear piece in Spanish, and then
you could speak back to me in Spanish and it
would in my earpiece it would translate back to English.
(15:43):
So hopefully that's coming up coming fast. I hope you've
seen that.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
Yeah, and Google has made huge advents as well, and
other big companies are making huge events. However, we need
to be careful because AI can hallucinate all times and interpret
things that are not accurate, and it happens with trained
translators as well as a clinician. I've had experiences what
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I've had to stop the translator and say that's not
at all what I said. Oh wow, and so let
me take over and I'll translate into Spanish now. But
I think we're making a lot of progress and part
of the innovations that we're testing in the Institute on
Aging and seeing how we can use technology to actually
facilitate a lot of this encounters and try to remove
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some of the barriers. But we have to be very
careful because the AI that you use is only as
good as how well it has been trained.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Boy, isn't at the truth in and in a medical setting,
that's very important to get it exactly right. Doctor Raphael
Sampraturnett on fifty plus. Family dynamics from culture to culture
very very different. You mentioned how attentive Hispanic cultures are
to their seniors. What other which cultures tend to do
(17:03):
best as it pertains to their seniors who need medical
care and which are kind of blase about it.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
Yeah, so Hispanics have there's something called the Hispanic paradox
that has been described broadly where despite not having as
many resources, they have a mortality advantage. So older Hispanics
tend to die at lower rates than Blacks and whites,
and that advantage has been attributed to different things. One
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of them is living in neighborhoods that are heavily Hispanic
and having big social support and social networks to support
older adults. The black community because of its heavy faith
based culture. They tend to do well, and they see
caregiving not as a burden but as a responsibility and
(17:53):
the right thing to do. Whites tend to fare a
little poor in terms of outcomes and provision of care
to older adults. So there's something in the Hispanic culture
where family is a huge value that seems to be
protective for older Hispanics.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
They're setting the benchmarkin no question about that. Doctor Raphael
Semper Tournent. I greatly appreciate your time. I've got three
or four more questions here, but I don't have time
for him. Now we'll have to do this again.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
Yep, sounds good. Thank you very much for having me.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
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you very bud. All Right, we got to take a
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Aged what a perfection this is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
All right, welcome back to fifty plus.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Thank you for listening on this pretty dog on nice Tuesday,
which probably is going to be followed by tomorrow morning
with a very wet Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Where do I want to go here? Let's go to
something lighter, will shall we?
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Are you ready? Right? Okay? By the way, did you
come up with any kind of a little feature or
bit that you're going to do while I was gone,
while you had all that time to work on it? Yes?
What do you got? All right? Are you ready? I am?
And runs back? And how do you feel about it? Oh?
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I didn't know it was a Q and a thing
E fool me once? I don't know. Uh, in what
iteration are they coming back? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
It's it's the I guess, the the memorial of their bankruptcy.
And they've they've launched a new website. Okay, but that's it.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Now.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
There's a there's a company that has bought the Enron trademark,
and they also do this very popular site called Birds
Aren't Real, which is uh, you know, really cell merch. Yeah,
and they've got good merch and you know, little videos
(21:43):
and whatnot. But they've bought the Enron trademark, so there
might be a chance. This is well, I think that's
a totally different thing. Yeah, but I think that they
might also start using uh, you know, maybe start selling
Enron merch.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
And they're starting with birds Aren't Real. They've been doing
birds Aren't Real for a long time. Where do you
come up with a name like that?
Speaker 4 (22:05):
Well, it's to say that apparently birds aren't real and
that their government drones sent to spy on us.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
I'm fading fast over here, will let's move forward, honk shoe?
They say, guess what today? Today is national?
Speaker 2 (22:20):
What day?
Speaker 3 (22:21):
I don't know about Hong Shoe. Way, Well, I don't know, So.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Today is national?
Speaker 3 (22:26):
What day? Well it's Giving Tuesday? Well no, no, this
is different. This is the weird obscure one that Giving Tuesday.
I've got something on that as well. By the way,
I will I tell you. It's been around since twenty twelve. Okay,
so good, you brought it up. I'm I'm gonna give
you what I know about it. And in a poll,
a whopping thirty six percent of us said they've even
(22:47):
heard of it. It's only been around twelve years, and
only one third of the country has heard of it,
and fifteen percent have participated. I guess in the last
four years, you can kind of understand that not a
whole lot of people willing to dig deep and throw
money around. Fifty six percent of Americans, by the way,
think they are more generous than their friends. Are you
(23:08):
more generous than your friends? Am I more generous than
my friends?
Speaker 4 (23:12):
I don't know. I don't think so. I have some
pretty generous friends.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
I do too. Now is it are they generous because
they have a lot more than you? Or do you
do you feel like they give more than you because
they have more than you, or just what? I don't know.
I think that they're just they're just naturally generous people. Well,
I feel like I'm a pretty generous person. I really do.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Yeah, I try.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
I do.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
I do what I can with what I have.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
I give as much as I can for you, Saint Jude,
for example, I'll be one of the first people to
call and pledge that same monthly pledge that I did
last year. And I don't need another sweatshirt. So if
you want a sweatshirt, maybe I can give mind to you.
What size do you wear? Will I'm an extra large
you want to say, Jude sweatshirt, I'll take a Saint Jude.
So okay, let me see if I can remember to
(24:03):
ask for an extra large and if I do, it'll
be yours because I have one at home that already
fits me. And yeah, anyway, so back to what today is,
Will before we run out of time in this segment,
you want to take it's a food, and I'll give
you a hint. It's probably a couple of days later
(24:24):
then it should have been, because by now it's probably
been thrown out. Oh, happy Leftover's Day. Well that's too
that's too generic. You gotta it's gotta be a Tuesday. No,
come on, what's on most not all? It wasn't on
our Thanksgiving table, as a matter of fact, but what's
(24:44):
on many Thanksgiving tables. And on top of it is
a little bed of crunchy onions, those dried up crispy onions,
green bean casserole, bingo. If you had a if you
had a symbol clash, you could have played it right then,
about two days after we tossed all that stuff in
(25:06):
the trash. I don't know why it would be today.
That makes no sense. Will, of course, a lot in
the world doesn't make sense these days. Huh, all right,
I'll give you a chance to pick. We got a
couple of minutes left. Wait your turn now? Who knew
that was about thanksg Giving Tuesday? Weight your turn? Strumming
along or learned to count? And they're all good strumming along.
(25:29):
I like this one. It's very interesting. More than three
thousand fake Gibson electric guitars shipped from Asia were seized
by Asians at the La Airport at en La Airport.
I don't know which one three thousand fake Gibson's coming
in and.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
That's some I just.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Can't imagine where they might be coming from. Uh, fake
Gibson's that's the problem. You know what else comes in
a lot? Will that one of the one of them
most counterfeited industries in the country. Take a guess, and
it's a sport. Oh, let's see. You want to hint? Yeah,
it's a game played by a lot a lot of
(26:17):
wealthy people.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
Okay, hmm poker, bake chip, Yeah, yeah, that's it.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Will you know it's not a gambling game, it's a sport. Okay,
tag No, you're just not even trying. No, no, no, no, no, it's.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Golf, will it's golf. Seriously, there are there.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Are major problems with the intellectual property of things that
are being made for American companies in China, in the
golf industry that are making they wear their way here
in identical packaging, identical everything, golf golf shoe. I don't
know about shoes, but I know about golf balls. I
(27:04):
know specifically of an incident many years ago, I mean
many years ago where counterfeit titleist golf balls we're being
shipped into this country and resold, and so yeah, any
way to make a buck. I guess you know a
lot of golf clubs. I think they've cleaned up a
lot of that, but I suspect that it's still going on.
(27:29):
And three thousand fake Gibson electric guitars just kind of
tells you that nothing's changed. I suppose we want one more. No,
we don't have time for one more doing No, Okay,
let's move on then. Of late health attention, attention gentlemen,
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(27:49):
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(28:10):
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(28:32):
it up.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
They put a cork.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Well it's not a quark and it's not that big anyway,
but they block that artery so that no more blood
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They do ugly veins for anybody who's got them. There
(28:56):
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(29:18):
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Speaker 2 (29:44):
Well, they sure don't make them like they used to.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
That's why every few months we wash them, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh cod o wax.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 6 (30:10):
Right, welcome back, fifty plus on It's Tuesday Giving Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Is that what it's called?
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Well, that's what it says on the clock over there,
What do you give?
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Yeah, it is okay. Giving Tuesday, International Day of Persons
with Disabilities. That's the longest one of those I've ever seen.
I think I think the International Day of Persons with
Disabilities might be more important than Giving Tuesday. It's kind
of a toss up, isn't it. Which do you think.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Is more important?
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Uh? Probably International? Yeah, I agree, I really do, I
really do. There's some recognition. Anybody who has a disability,
first of all, shouldn't be recognized for their disability first,
but for their ability to overcome that disability and however
they can and to whatever degree. There is no there's
(31:03):
no guideline that says you have.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
To do this if you have that.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
That's just you do what you can with what you have.
And I admire people who who don't let anything get
in their way. I really do. I do. Oh, mercy,
let's go back. Come from a good news desk, speaking
of there's always good news if you go looking for it.
It has been fifty years since doctors have added a
(31:30):
tool in their box of options for COPD and asthma,
and there is a new one. There's a new one,
an injection that's looking to be a true game changer
in those two conditions being studied in Great Britain, appears
to be four or five times more effective than steroid tablets.
(31:53):
There's still more time needed to get this one approved
across the board, but human trials thus far have gone
quite well, and so that's certainly good news. Back to
all this, I found this interesting too, and I had it.
I wrote it yesterday, actually I did or Sunday evening,
(32:14):
Sunday afternoon, when I was in here doing some prep
work from the in the beginning desk comes word that
Bibles are selling like hotcakes in our country right now,
and as a Christian, I'm happy to hear that people,
and especially young people from what I read, young people
who may have been raised outside the church, or of
a different faith than mine, or maybe we're coached away
from religion altogether. They're looking again for something in which
(32:38):
they can believe deeply, and many of them are turning
to the Bible. And I'd imagine that other faiths also
are attracting renewed attention just now as well. These are
kind of weird times, and I think there's comfort in
a deep belief in something that's maybe at a little
(32:58):
more than you really do. I think that's good. And
there actually are several hundred recognized religions in this country,
but more than two thirds of Americans still practice some
form of Christianity. About a quarter say they don't practice
any religion at all. And I would think it might
be some of them who are saying, you know what,
(33:19):
maybe I should take a look, and that's more power
to them. From the picking up the tab desk comes
news that Denver, Colorado, one of so many of these
sanctuary cities in our country at present, Denver has shelled
out three hundred and fifty six million dollars so far
(33:40):
to take care of migrants who've landed in that mile
high city of theirs. That's about seventy nine hundred per
migrant so far, which accounts for roughly eight percent of
that city's twenty twenty five budget four point four billion
dollar budget. And to pay those bills, Denver has stopped
planning spring flower beds. Now, we don't leave flowers. We
(34:00):
got to take care of these people. They've reduced services
at their own recreation centers. We don't need rec centers.
We need to take care of these people who aren't
even supposed to be here, and they have tapped into
the city's contingency fund, and nothing on that list is
anything but bad for Denver. In just the past two years,
(34:20):
forty five thousand migrants in Denver, including more than sixteen
thousand children, newly enrolled in city schools, at a cost
of two hundred and twenty eight million bucks a year.
Hospital system teetering on collapse behind delivering forty nine million
dollars in uncompensated care to migrants. At the same time,
(34:42):
a Denver migrant advocate says that six months of free
rent and free food and free medical care is an
offensive slap in the face. You ever heard the expression
give them an inch and they'll take a mile. That's
I'm afraid what far too many of these migrants are doing.
And they have people who are championing but oh no,
(35:03):
we need more than that. We need more than Americans get.
I'll never understand why we are not taking care of
ours first, of people who were born and raised here,
of people who came here and went through the proper
channels to gain citizenship. I don't understand how that fell
apart in this country of ours. All right, well, let's
(35:26):
soften it up going out. That's enough of that. Boy,
I had more to believe me, got plastic surgery news,
I've got no. I'll hold those for tomorrow, all right,
Will We're back to you and you ready?
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Yeah? Wait? Your turn?
Speaker 3 (35:43):
Learn to count? Or a little goes a long way? Hmm,
a little goes a long way.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
A poll asked people, by the.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
Way, will I think you're doing a great job? A
poll asked people what it would take for them to
feel more appreciated at work, and forty eight percent said
a personal thank you from their boss would do that.
You know, I'm actually gonna just share this with Eddie,
and he and I, he and are close enough that
I can do that. He won't think I'm kissing up
to him or anything, but I'm just gonna share that
(36:17):
with him because he might be able to make a
lot of people feel good around here. He already does.
I've worked for a lot of different people in my life.
I've had a couple of small businesses very early when
I was very young. And this guy, he's as good
as they get, I gotta tell you. The bottom line
was forty eight percent said that thank you was enough.
Thirteen percent wanted to win an internal award like Employee
(36:41):
of the Month. I kind of disagree with that. What
do you think will which would you rather get? A
personal thank you from me and from Brian and from
Callum or a little trophy? None of them?
Speaker 1 (37:00):
What you want?
Speaker 3 (37:00):
Oh? I want you want? Yeah? Never mind? I want
cash in my hand and pocket was burning a hole
lining my suit jacket. How about that, Well, you might
have to wait a while. You know how long Americans
spend waiting in line? This drove me crazy when I
read it. How many hours do Americans spend total? Americans
(37:23):
spend waiting in line every year? How many hours? Yeah?
I think your time? Will? You got to burn? About
thirty seconds? Okay, thirty second? It was the last time
you waited along? I'll tell you when.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
The last time I waited a long time in line
was last night? I was going.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
I went to pick up a baked potato with everything
on the side and a kid's mild sausage plate at
a barbecue place out close to where I live, and
I waited in there. Well, I called them. They said,
how long before you can get here? I said five minutes.
I'll be there.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
Oh, it'll be ready.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
And when I got there, seventeen minutes will so? So,
how long do you think total for Americans spent standing
in line? Three hours? The old total of every American, No,
thirty seven billion hours. We'll be back tomorrow
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